Amazon is simply the biggest and the best e-tailer marketplace over the internet. What’s more, it shifts the burden and responsibility of bringing in the traffic (who are serious buyers) to your product listings. It also boasts of the highest conversion rate compared to other e-commerce sites, says about 15%. This happens since most of the traffic comes with the mindset of buying and the intent is clear since they start looking for the product they want or need immediately instead of simply browsing through the pages (this constitutes about 10% of the total traffic on Amazon).
For the purpose of driving the traffic to your page, you also need to optimize and take advantage of the various marketing tools especially launched by Amazon, both for the benefit of the buyers and the sellers.
Here are a few tips on how you can optimize on the strategies that will help in higher conversions.
- The Title is what attracts the buyer
Think from the viewpoint of the buyers and you will see that the title is the most important element on your product detail page which is the first thing that will catch the buyers’ attention and pike their interest to come and view your product. Having a catchy title is a must but optimizing on the title by inserting a couple of keywords is what will do the trick.
This will help in better ranking for your product when the search is made. Keep in mind that your title should contain the
– brand name
– special features and characteristics
– product’s name
The main intent of creating a title should be to educate the buyers about your product before they visit the products’ page. In order to get the best possible title, sellers can make use of various tools like the Simple Keyword Inspector, Merchant Words, and Google Keyword Planner. Also, Amazon will recommend the best-suited title for you.
- Images say it all
Catchy and attractive images will attract the buyers to view your products and also create an interest in their minds regarding visiting your product listing page. Images and pictures that have an emotional quotient work better than anything else. Thus, use HD images for your product listing page.
However, there are certain rules regarding image usage that sellers on Amazon have to follow. Amazon allows only images of the products clicked with a white background since they believe that the images with white background work better than any other images. Also, the image cannot have pictures of accessories that are not accompanied with the product as they can be misleading and misinterpreted.
Invest time, effort and money in getting the best shots of your products, from various angles, special features and product in action in order to attract more buyers.
- Sponsored Products ads
Amazon offers its sellers some of the most amazing marketing tools that they can avail and optimize in order to increase the traffic to their page and also, subsequently increase the sales. The Sponsored Products ads are the PPC version initiated by Amazon that is product based instead of merchant-based.
The program is created to benefit the sellers where they get to choose the product they want to display, throw in the keywords, have an attractive title and pay the cost only when a visitor clicks on the ad link. The product appears when the buyer keys in the keywords during the search. The buyers are directed to the listing page upon their clicking on the product link.
- Amazon advertising help
Amazon has rolled out a few marketing strategies that help vendors in attracting more visitors and increasing their sales volumes like the Display ads, Video ads, Sponsored Products ads, Buy Box and more. Their expertise in the e-commerce field gives them an edge over their competitors and gives them in-depth knowledge of how to lure the customers and keep them engaged and have a higher conversion rate and Amazon comes forth to help the sellers and vendors in gaining traffic and business.